Scheme (rhetoric)
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Main article: Figure of speech
In rhetoric, a scheme is a type of figure of speech that relies on the structure of the sentence, unlike the trope, which plays with the meanings of words.[1]
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A single phrase may involve both a trope and a scheme, e.g., may use both alliteration and allegory.